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The University of Sussex is a public research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the South Downs National Park, and provides convenient access to central Brighton 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) away.
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L'Università del Sussex è un'università pubblica inglese...
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- History
- Campus and Architecture
- Organisation
- Partnerships
- Reputation
- Student Life
- Links with Industry
- Notable Alumni
- Controversies and Criticisms
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Foundation
The University of Essex is one of the seven original plate glass universitiesestablished between 1961 and 1965. In July 1959, Essex County Council accepted a proposal from Charles Leatherland, Baron Leatherland to establish a university in the county. A University Promotion Committee was formed, chaired by Lord Lieutenant of Essex, Sir John Ruggles-Brise, which submitted a formal application to the University Grants Committee requesting for the establishment of the University of Essex. Initia...
Expansion
In October 1964, the first 122 students arrived with 28 teaching staff in three schools: Comparative Studies, Physical Sciences and Social Studies. Departments of Chemistry, Physics, Government, Sociology, Literature, Mathematics and Economics opened along with the Language Centre (later the Department of Language and Linguistics) and the Computing Centre (later the Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering) with Denis Mesure elected as the first President of the Student Counc...
The Protests of 1968
Amid the worldwide escalation of social conflicts and protests against the Vietnam War, the University of Essex was at the vanguard of the 1960s student uproar. In March 1968, a demonstration against the visitation of the then Shadow Secretary State for Defence, Enoch Powell, received national publicity whereby seven students were summoned to disciplinary hearings to which was ultimately prevented by student sit-ins. On Tuesday, 7 May 1968, Dr Thomas Inch from Porton Downpaid a visit to host...
Wivenhoe Park, the home of the primary campus, was painted by landscape painter John Constable in 1816. The park houses the main 1960s buildings along with Wivenhoe House, an 18th-century mansion that also features in Constable's painting. Wivenhoe House hotel was closed in December 2010 for major refurbishment and reopened in 2012 as a combined fo...
The university is organised into three faculties, comprising 21 schools and departments, spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences and Science and Health.
The university has stated its priority to enhance new and existing partnerships and initiatives at international and domestic level. A recent development includes the establishment of the first "European university" through the Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE), an alliance of eight leading young European universities and six assoc...
The University of Essex was named University of the Year at the Times Higher Education Awards in 2018.It won the International Collaboration of the Year Award at the Times Higher Education Awards 2019 for its work with Amnesty International and five other universities on the Digital Verification Corps, which investigates human rights violations aro...
Student body
New students entering the university in 2021 had an average of 126 points (the equivalent of just under ABB at A Level).Statistics from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show 95% of UK undergraduates are from state schools or colleges and 11.8% are from low participation neighbourhoods. The university has a very large population of international students, with over 4,300 students from outside the UK in 2017–18. Essex has an international character with 132 countries represented in its st...
Students' Union
Some of the major music bands to play in Essex's Students' Union include AC/DC, Blur, Iggy Pop, The Kinks, Can, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, The Smiths and The Specials. Essex students voted to leave the National Union of Students in an All Student Vote in 2017. A total of 1,026 votes were cast across the three campuses (845 Colchester, 132 in Southend and 46 in Loughton) with 59% in favour of disaffiliating from the national body.In 2018, the student body voted in a referendum to cha...
Sport
Sport is an integral part of the living and learning experience for students and staff at Essex. There are a wide range of opportunities to participate in sport and physical activity offered, designed to have broad appeal, and to contribute to health and wellbeing of the campus community and to complement the educational experience offered at the university. The competitive student sports teams taking part in the British Universities and Colleges Sports competitions are known as the Essex Bla...
Knowledge Gateway research and technology park
Essex has established the Knowledge Gateway research and technology park at its Colchester Campus with a long-term aim of providing employment for more than 2,000 people. The first phase of Parkside Office Village and the new £21m Essex Business School were the first buildings to be completed. The second phase of Parkside Office Village opened in autumn 2018 and a new £12m Innovation Centre opened in 2019. The innovation Centre will provide a home to more than 50 start-ups and has been suppor...
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Essex's Research and Enterprise Office connects businesses with academic expertise and also offers business support. In December 2019 Essex was the leading university in the East of England and London for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, the flagship Innovate UK programme, and third in the UK with 35 active projects worth a total of £8 million.
Óscar Arias, former president of Costa Rica, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prizein 1987Christopher A. Pissarides, the joint Nobel Prize in Economicsrecipient in 2010John Bercow, former Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)(2009-2019)Architect Daniel LibeskindAcademic and Professional Integrity
In her article "Diary: Why I Quit" in the London Review of Books, the novelist and the chair of judges for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, Dame Marina Warner, compared the University of Essex to "the world of Chinese communist corporatism where enforcers rush to carry out the latest orders from their chiefs in an ecstasy of obedience to ideological principles which they do not seem to have examined, let alone discussed with the people they order to follow them, whom they cashier when...
Anti-semitism and allegations of racial profiling
In February 2019, the university was involved in an anti-semitism controversy; a number of students voted against the establishment of the Jewish student society. Staff member Dr Maaruf Ali was dismissed due to posting holocaust denial images on social media. In October 2021, the university received some criticism as anti-semitic chants were made by protestors outside a talk by Richard Kempon the Colchester campus. In January 2021, a black student was allegedly racially profiledby security st...
Choose from over 500 undergraduate and postgraduate courses and degrees at a highly ranked, research-led university in Brighton, UK.
About us. For over 60 years the aim of our courses, research, culture and campus has been to stimulate, excite and challenge. So from scientific discovery to global policy, from student welfare to career development, Sussex innovates and takes a lead.
L'Università del Sussex è un'università pubblica inglese situata in prossimità del villaggio di Falmer e all'interno della regione denominata Brighton and Hove. È stata fondata nel 1960 e l'anno successivo le furono conferiti i legittimi poteri grazie ad un decreto-legge del re.
4 ott 2021 · Beginning in August 2021, we celebrated 60 years of Sussex. Explore how we marked six decades of groundbreaking research, providing our students with an exceptional education and how we’ve helped shape the future for thousands of people.
